Service Opportunities

Service Ideas List

Want ideas for how you can serve others? Here is a list of activities you can do by yourself or with others. This list is just a starting point to help you come up with your own ideas for serving. Some activities may require you to obtain proper permission first.

Write letters to all of the missionaries, including senior couples, serving from your ward.

Go contacting with the full-time missionaries serving in your area. Check out other ways you can help the missionaries.

Collect unused Scout uniforms from ward members, and give the clothing to a local Scout troop.

Write your testimony inside the front cover of copies of the Book of Mormon, and give them to the missionaries in your area.

Research and hold an evening on the history of the Young Women program. Invite the mothers of the young women in your ward, and invite them share an experience from their years in the Young Women program.

Give financial help to missionaries who need it.

Clean the grounds of a cemetery.

Plant trees as part of a local conservation or beautification project.

Build a toy box or bookshelf for the ward nursery.

Make a family first-aid kit.

Bake a birthday cake for widows or widowers who don’t have children nearby.

Help elderly women in your ward feel needed by asking them to teach you skills like knitting, quilting, and making needlepoint projects.

Clean the banks of a nearby river or beach.

Make “quiet books” for children, and give the books to the missionaries to use with their investigators’ children.